Under the sky, Marco flapped his wings lightly and looked at the intruder with vigilance. A huge black eagle had a black-haired boy in a suit standing on its back. The boy looked at him indifferently, with an expression of displeasure.

An expression that takes him to heart.

"A person with abilities, but not an animal type, but a superhuman type who can control animals?" Marco looked at Pride and speculated on his abilities in his mind.

"Are you that Illumi's subordinate?" Marco looked at Pride, frowned slightly, then raised the corner of his mouth and said: "Even a child of this age is under his command, he is indeed a bad criminal that the world government is afraid of.

"

As soon as he finished speaking, Pride controlled the black eagle to suddenly flap its wings and rush toward Marco.

"Want to have a dogfight with me?"

Marco stared at the black eagle that was attacking him, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, vibrated his wings and also rushed towards Pride.

"Bang!"

Two black shadows, one black and one green, collided and suddenly separated. They wandered in the sky for a while and then looked back. They collided again with a "bang" and separated quickly.

This was repeated dozens of times, and both sides were injured.

The two kept fighting and rising in altitude, and before they knew it, they reached an altitude of 10,000 meters.

"The sky is my home court, and I also have the ability to heal myself. How long can your eagle last?"

In a sea of ​​clouds, Marco, in the form of a phoenix, turned back and stared confidently at Pride, who was chasing behind him, waving his wings and flying at high speed in the sky.

There were clusters of green flames dissipating on his abdomen and wings. They were wounds caused when he and Pride collided. However, he was a phoenix of the Phantom Beast species. This kind of injury was not worth mentioning. He recovered in the blink of an eye.

Look at each other...

"Um?"

Marco's eyes strangely glanced at the black eagle. The black eagle was obviously covered with bruises, but it still pursued it closely. There wasn't even any emotion in its pair of scarlet vertical pupils, like a puppet.

"This eagle is not a real creature!"

"boom!"

Thoughts flashed through his mind, but there was a sudden explosion above his head. Marco looked up suddenly, his expression changed in shock.

"Bang!!!"

A black eagle rushed out of the clouds above his head and hit him hard on the back. The sharp beak was covered with a layer of armed domineering force, and it penetrated deeply into the flesh and blood wrapped in blue flames. The severe pain made Marco unable to bear it.

Screaming out.

"Ahhhh~!"

The sudden attack caused Marco to lose his balance. When he came to his senses, two black thorns suddenly shot out from the black eagle and tied his wings, making him unable to flap his wings to escape.

Marco, in the form of a phoenix, could only watch helplessly as he fell towards the sea.

"You are Whitebeard's second-in-command? You don't look like much."

A rich and magnetic man's voice penetrated the whistling wind and came clearly into his ears. Marco raised his head with difficulty and looked at the source of the sound. A young man in a black trench coat stepped on the back of an eagle, with a pair of scarlet red eyes.

The pupils looked down at him condescendingly.

"The big criminal...Ilumi." Marco stared at Ilumi with a solemn expression, and his voice also reached Ilumi's ears through the domineering tone of his knowledge, "It seems that Scuardo and Marco Guy can't stop it.

you."

Marco had contacted Macugai before arriving. The moment he saw Ilumi, he knew that the two of them were probably in danger.

"Those two people..." Yilumi raised his right hand, a ball of black liquid squirmed quickly from his palm, and two heads condensed and appeared, "I have already eaten them as snacks."

"Skuado, Makugai..." Marco stared at the two heads in Illumi's palm, feeling angry in his heart, "The Whitebeard Pirates will not give up!"

"You should worry about yourself first, you are about to fall into the water." Ilumi smiled when he heard this, and Marco looked down. At this time, they were only one thousand meters away from the sea.

"You are also a person with abilities, right? Do you want to die together?" Marco glanced at the black thorns binding him, gritted his teeth and said, "Or do you think you can escape before falling into the sea?"

"You don't have to worry about this kind of thing." Yilumi's face was calm, and the black thorns were even tighter.

"Boom~!"

Suddenly, the green flames on Marco's body burned violently, directly covering Ilumi and the black eagle standing on his back.

"You want to burn me with the flames of regeneration?"

Illumi's voice came out from the blue flames. Marco heard the voice and went away, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he saw Illumi standing in the flames with a calm expression, letting the green flames sway around him.

"This person knows a lot about my Devil Fruit abilities?"

Marco originally wanted to use this fierce flame to scare Ilumi and find a flaw to escape. But the opponent seemed to know the Phoenix's ability very well, so it didn't work.

"It can only be this way."

Marco narrowed his eyes slightly and saw that he was only a hundred meters away from the sea. He gritted his teeth and his shoulders split with a "pop", and a large amount of cyan flames splashed out like blood.

"Crane Claw!"

"Bang!"

Marco actually broke off his arms, raised his legs and kicked the black eagle hard on the head. With the force of this kick, it was shot backwards, leaving only a pair of cyan wings bound by black thorns.

"Self-cutting your arms is a wise decision, but..."

Ilumi looked at Marco who was reflected backwards, his expression unchanged.

"blow!"

A black shadow passed by and struck Marco, who was falling freely in the sky without his arms. It was Pride.

"I knew you would come."

Marco, who was free falling in the air, saw Pride coming towards him, and a smile appeared on his lips.

"Qingyanyan!"

Marco's lips moved slightly, and the pair of wings bound by black thorns under Ilumi suddenly squirmed violently, and the cyan wings suddenly squirmed and transformed into two huge fireballs several meters in diameter.

"Boom!"

A violent explosion occurred, and the blazing blue flames enveloped Ilumi and the black eagle.

"call!"

A blue fireball rushed out of the flames and flew towards Pride who was attacking Marco at high speed.

"shield!"

Pride stretched out his left hand with five fingers spread out, and a black round shield condensed in front of him.

"Boom~!"

The cyan fireball collided with Pride's shield, causing a violent explosion. Pride and Ilumi were also enveloped in strong cyan flames.

"Whoosh!"

At this time, a pair of wings burning with green flames grew on Marco's shoulders. When he was about to touch the sea water, he flapped his wings, turned 180 degrees and suddenly took off.

"boom!"

Immediately afterwards, Marco suddenly flapped his wings and flew into the distant sky.

He ran away directly.

"Want to chase?"

In mid-air, Pride, whose whole body was wrapped in green flames, looked at the back of the big blue bird from a distance and asked.

"No need, Marco cannot be killed now."

Ilumi stared at Marco's shrinking back and said. He was also wrapped in a large amount of cyan flames, which were as hard to dispel as maggots attached to bones.

Marco is a man with excellent medical skills. Keeping him alive can prolong Whitebeard's life and prepare for future plans.

"Although this kind of flame does no harm and can even bring a touch of warmth, it sticks to the body like candy and cannot be removed."

Yilumi frowned and patted the green flames on his chest. While speaking, the green flames actually transferred from his chest to his palms.

The blue flame of the Phoenix is ​​a regenerative flame, which does some damage, but its main effect is healing. It can cause damage to people like the Wolf who don't even have domineering power, but it has no effect on Ilumi.

Moreover, Marco was only in his twenties at this time, and his strength had not yet reached its peak.

After a while, as Marco moved away, the green flames wrapped around Illumi gradually dissipated.

"go back."

Ilumi and Pride controlled two black eagles and flew back to the fleet.

At this time, the soldiers of the Blackwater Fleet have completely wiped out the Great Maelstrom Spider Pirates and the Leiqing Pirates. All the miscellaneous fish have been eaten by them. A few powerful pirate elites are also under siege by a large number of Blackwater soldiers.

Down to death.

After Illumi and Pride returned to the fleet, the fleet continued sailing towards the waters of the Beast Pirates as planned.

Over the sea dozens of miles away from the Blackwater Fleet...

"What is that guy's background?"

"Not only is he powerful, but he also has the same abilities. The most important thing is that Ilumi actually knows all about the abilities of the Phoenix."
To be continued...